How to fix the position of a particular section of a report

mkpjsr

Hi experts,

I want to fix a section of a report to be always displayed at a particular position.
Actually i am using Posted Transfer Shipment report and i am using pre-printed stationary to print the report. There may be more than one item in the line and a maximum of 15 line. So, I want that the Transfer Shipment Line (footer) to be always displayed in the middile of the report even if the line contain 1 line or 15 line.
If i am using "Placeinbottom" property of the section then is is being displayed at the bottom but i want to print it in the middle.

How can i do this, can anybody guide me.

mkpjsr

Can anybody tell me, is it possible???

Savatage

Search forum for "newpage" to count lines and force a new page

Take a look at integer data item too

mkpjsr

Savatage wrote:

Search forum for "newpage" to count lines and force a new page

Take a look at integer data item too

Hi, thanx for the reply.
Actually my report will always contain one page only. Can we control the section's height programatically??

Savatage

If you want the footer to print in the middle of the page then those 15 potential line better be real small. Place at bottom=no else you want to create a new page size.

I would use the integer data item. Many post exist. Try a search.

mkpjsr

Savatage wrote:

If you want the footer to print in the middle of the page then those 15 potential line better be real small. Place at bottom=no else you want to create a new page size.

I would use the integer data item. Many post exist. Try a search.

Here what i want is that the "transfer shipment line" section always have room for 15 lines even if there is only one item in the line so that footer does not move up and remain in the middile.

PeterD

Place your transfer footer at bottom and make it high enough so your first line apears in the middle of the print?

rsaritzky

If I understand your question correctly, you want this:

Scenario 1: 1 Transfer line

Transfer line 1
Blank line
Blank line
... (total of 14 blank lines)
Footer

Scenario 2: 2 transfer lines
Transfer Line 1
Transfer Line 2
(total of 13 blank lines)
Footer

Scenario 3: 14 transfer lines
Transfer line 1
Transfer line 2
Transfer line 3
..etc through 14
Footer

If that's what you're looking for, then the previous suggestion of an additional dataitem based on "Integer" is one way to do it.

As you process/print the Transfer lines, keep track of the line count, e.g. in the "Transfer Line" section of the report, add
LineCounter := LineCounter + 1;
(Don't forget to re-initialize LineCounter to 0 at the beginning of each document)

Now add a dataitem "Integer" after the Transfer Lines section, and add a section in the report with one blank line. Then, include code in the dataitem:

IF LineCounter > 14 THEN
CurrReport.BREAK; // Doesn't print any (more) blank lines if more than 14 transfer lines printed
LineCounter := LineCounter + 1; // Continues to increment LineCounter

So, if there are 4 Transfer lines, LineCounter will have a value of 4 before dropping into the Integer dataitem.
The Integer dataitem will repeat 10 times (printing a blank line each time), then will execute a BREAK, dropping into the next dataitem.

You'll probably have to move the "Footer" section of the Transfer Line into the "Footer" section of the Integer dataitem.

Hope this helps

mkpjsr

rsaritzky wrote:

If I understand your question correctly, you want this:

Scenario 1: 1 Transfer line

Transfer line 1
Blank line
Blank line
... (total of 14 blank lines)
Footer

Scenario 2: 2 transfer lines
Transfer Line 1
Transfer Line 2
(total of 13 blank lines)
Footer

Scenario 3: 14 transfer lines
Transfer line 1
Transfer line 2
Transfer line 3
..etc through 14
Footer

If that's what you're looking for, then the previous suggestion of an additional dataitem based on "Integer" is one way to do it.

As you process/print the Transfer lines, keep track of the line count, e.g. in the "Transfer Line" section of the report, add
LineCounter := LineCounter + 1;
(Don't forget to re-initialize LineCounter to 0 at the beginning of each document)

Now add a dataitem "Integer" after the Transfer Lines section, and add a section in the report with one blank line. Then, include code in the dataitem:

IF LineCounter > 14 THEN
CurrReport.BREAK; // Doesn't print any (more) blank lines if more than 14 transfer lines printed
LineCounter := LineCounter + 1; // Continues to increment LineCounter

So, if there are 4 Transfer lines, LineCounter will have a value of 4 before dropping into the Integer dataitem.
The Integer dataitem will repeat 10 times (printing a blank line each time), then will execute a BREAK, dropping into the next dataitem.

You'll probably have to move the "Footer" section of the Transfer Line into the "Footer" section of the Integer dataitem.

Hope this helps

Hi, thanx for the reply, i have tried this but still the problem is not 100% resolved.
If my transfer line is having 15 lines then its print the first line and 14 blank lines and then the rest of 14 lines of data. but i want to print all 15 lines of data then the footer.

Also if the transfer line has only one line of data then its working fine, means printing the first line and then 14 blank lines....

mkpjsr

rsaritzky wrote:

IF LineCounter > 14 THEN
CurrReport.BREAK; // Doesn't print any (more) blank lines if more than 14 transfer lines printed
LineCounter := LineCounter + 1; // Continues to increment LineCounter

I think the above code is working just after printing the first transfer line, where should i place this code so that it executes after printing all 15 lines of data..

rsaritzky

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking - can you lay out an example?

Ron

rsaritzky

mkpjsr wrote:

rsaritzky wrote:

Hi, thanx for the reply, i have tried this but still the problem is not 100% resolved.
If my transfer line is having 15 lines then its print the first line and 14 blank lines and then the rest of 14 lines of data. but i want to print all 15 lines of data then the footer.

Also if the transfer line has only one line of data then its working fine, means printing the first line and then 14 blank lines....

I think I understand now what you are describing. Please confirm this.

What I think you are saying is that you are getting

Transfer line 1
Blank line
Blank line
Blank line
<repeated 14 times>

Transfer line 2
Transfer line 3
Transfer line 4
...
Transfer line 15

If this is the case, the problem is probably in 2 places:
a. The Integer dataitem is indented under the Transfer Line - it should be at the same indentation level
b. The LineCounter is not being reinitialized properly

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